A judge is scheduled January 9, 2009 to sentence 31-year-old Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Chuckie Taylor.
Emmanuel was convicted in October of committing torture and other abuses as head of a paramilitary force in his father's government.
It was the first use of a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture overseas.
Prosecutors say the lengthy sentence would send a worldwide message against torture. Emmanuel's court-appointed lawyer didn't immediately comment.
Charles Taylor is on trial before a United Nations tribunal for alleged war crimes in Sierra Leone.
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All right, when to the trails for the shrub and the cabal for committing torture to begin and are their sentences to be comparable?!
Or is the fact that they are white and Taylor is black have any bearing on the case?
Taylor should be locked away for his actions and the severity of them.
However the sentence of 147 years is a stretch.
Handing him that many years is nothing but a publicity stunt ... it sounds better than 'Life and a day', which is what it should be.
That implies the notion he will never leave prison except feet first in a pine box, whereas 147 years leaves the remote possibility of he's being released from prison prior to his death as a foul taste in the mouths of his victims.
The shrub and the rest of the cabal deserve no less.
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